Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-04-24
w0MAN's weak.
[From Iospa Gass C.ty.l

Noticing the much that 10 said In ouI
various exchanges about vomsn's pro
eress 10 this work and that, this held
and that. We have sympathy With moss
Of il. And ne have the very fullest
rage and out OF marriage AMI every
where, makes the woman Der owl
master just a. fully as nan IL bis Own
master. II there cannot be marriage
and homes aad the peFpetuation Of the
species without Offering man the In.
ducement that be shall tyrannixe as be
pleaSes over the woman that becomes
his wife. then let the rsce 90. II Il il q
race that internal nesn IL doesn't de
serve to be perpetuated. There IL some
thing horrible in the human experience
that Dickens put into bis story Of Jonas
Ohuzzle Wit secretly saying 10 himself
how be will crush the happy spirits OF
Mercy as soon 40 she IL his wife. And
the hopeless. Submissive, urqaestion-
ing despair with which she accepts Il
that it il his manly and lawful right az
soon as she is his wife. The wife and
the mother should have the same per-
sonal aud property rights and indie
pendence in marriage rs out Of mar
rage. We eoacede woman's free aQen
OF and lawful rights to be identicsl
With mans. But as to tAis matter of
woman's work one thing goes amiss:
and that IL that jast In the degree
the emancipation Of woman goes on,
iust in the degree that social evolution
makes woman q free agent "a 10 her
own field Of work and action Just 10
that degree she abandoDs that field and
goes into mans held. II may not be
that homework 10 her field, yet she says
it IL and she has not surrendered 10. By
common usage, Of which she Is ons-
half Of the factors, man has taken the
work outdoors that maintains the home
aBd woman the work indoors that main
tains il. Il should be recognized that
nearly all the work done By men and
women ia this world Is sinply for the
home. All labor of both men and
womep. at home or abFead, BY lsnd or
sea, with large fortune or small-aIl
goes 10 home-makinR and home SPEND
ing. Those who make more 10 one
year than the home needs that year
save or invest Il as q resource for home
needs some future year. A great part
If this home-oenteFed work u work in
Of beth sexes women havs undertaken
10. II 10 edd that Just Ia the degree
thst women are mancipated-as Il Il
called-and In the degree that labor In
all departments Of industry has become
skilled, complicated and in tie highest
degree efficient. woman has become dis.
oontented, inefacleue bnd failure IN
her own dsld. Man develops and Sc
cures all the skilled labor that
he wants fer bis side Of
the home-makina work but woman
cannot. She does not know what TO do
without 'help." She crowds into mans
vocstions-iuto his side Of the home
making work, because she 10 incompe.
tent and . failure on her side Of that
work. There can be no question bat
American women are far mere inefh
cient. incompetent and worthless in
their part Of home-making than men
are 10 theirs II IL q serious matter.
too. Some thouRhtful person recently
gavs the statistics of the Hundreds OF
thousands Of unmarried men there are
IN American cities. A great part Of
them are men with Comfortable In
comes. bat they do not propose 20 try
to have homes and burden themselves
With wives whose inafficienoy will make
housekeeping life one long ri Amt. So
they don't marry. A thoughifuI man at
Chicago. Ia lats glecturs, recalled that
Francis Cation said thai the Creeks.
the most brilliant OF al the Raess Of
men, dscaysd and persisted because
marriage became unfaahionahIa and
vas avoided. Americans are growing
IN wealth faster than any people In the
goFid ever did. aud they are Rsing the
Greek road And women aFs helping
the tendency By their inefhsiency and
heiplessnees In the labor that maintains
the home from the inside.